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Austin County and Grimes County: Edwin Waller (1800–1881), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the first mayor of Austin, Texas: 63,553: 514 sq mi (1,331 km 2) Ward County: 475: Monahans: 1887: Tom Green County: Thomas William Ward, a commissioner for the General Land Office of Texas and mayor of Austin, Texas 10,966: 836 sq ...
English: This is a locator map showing Austin County in Texas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Austin County is a rural, agricultural dominated county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,167. [1] [2] Its seat is Bellville. [3] The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s. [4] Austin County is included in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical ...
Bellville is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Austin County.The city's population was 4,206 at the 2020 census. [4] Bellville is on the eastern edge of the Texas-German belt, and Bellville is known for its German culture and descendants of those Germans still call Bellville home.
Nelsonville is situated at the intersection of SH 159 and FM 2502. The county seat at Bellville is 9.5 miles (15.3 km) east-southeast on SH 159, while Industry is 6.1 miles (9.8 km) west on the same highway. Bleiblerville is 3.4 miles (5.5 km) to the northwest on FM 2502. Farm to Market Road 2754 (FM 2754) crosses FM 2502 at right angles at a ...
The oldest continuous site still inhabited by a county courthouse is in Liberty County, where its courthouse has stood—although rebuilt—since 1831. [15] In 1971 and 1972, two Texas Courthouse Acts were passed, which require the county to notify the Texas Historical Commission (THC) of any plans to remodel or destroy historic courthouses. [16]
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.
Travis County is located in Central Texas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,290,188.It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas.Its county seat and most populous city is Austin, [1] the state's capital.